Why Do People Love Me And Hate You

Improved Essays
The Angels of Life and Death Series: Series 1
.
Life asked Death "Why do people love me, but hate you?" Death responded "Because you are a beautiful lie, and I 'm a painful truth."

Death has been alive for many years, centuries to be more exact, and he often wondered if there was more to his existence. He often wondered if he was to do more then just reap souls and end lives. He would look down to the earth, stare at the many people, the people who he knew were going to become subject to the fate brought on by Death himself. He pitied them, he pitied them all. They all lived in hopes to be happy one day and he never understood why. They could be rich or poor, happy or sad, beautify or retched, but they all had the same fate. They would all sooner or later be greeted by the clad figure of Death and his legendary scythe. Many people look up to Angels, they worship them, but Death has realized long ago that he will never be cherished. He will be forever hated and he knows why but that doesn’t mean he understands. He was just doing his job. But when he looks into the faces of those whose loves ones he had taken, he can see their anguish, their sorrow, their hatred
…show more content…
He, the great Angel of Death feels no emotion. He’s taken so many lives, be it innocent or guilty, young or old, he’s taken them all and he feels absolutely nothing. It’s his job, a job he was made for. As every day went by The Angel of Death stood in the sky and he watched. He watched the humans from up above and he waited for the moment in which he would swoop down and take their very last breath. Every second, every minute, every hour was the same. Every day, every year, every century was an ongoing repetition. The people were different but his purpose always remained the same. His purpose was to take, to take and not feel. Death was perfection and feeling is imperfection. Angels aren’t meant to fall in love. But that all changed during one eventual

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    Death is one of the most evocative concepts known to man, when endured it 's arduous to reconcile the aftermath. But aside from making the hairs on the back of necks stand, death is also agonizing. The death of a loved one or anyone can break a man, and if they are not mentally prepared they could lose themselves or in many cases lose the will to continue to believe in their spiritual or secular ideology. Regardless of what it is death can always find a creep into your beliefs and make you question the fundamental pieces of your life that make you whole. In “Bless me Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya, aside from playing a vital part in the development of the plot, the deaths that take place in this piece of literature are critical to the mindset of Antonio, the protagonist, and his beliefs.…

    • 1786 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    An individual is powerless against the larger power of society, ultimately it is something they will succumb to and face. In The Book Thief the story follows Liesel and her life in Nazi Germany as she encounters several victims and abusers of power. The poem The next war is a soldiers poem during describing his experience with death and fatality. Finally in an interview The Sins of the Father is both an interview that gives us insight into the psyche and trauma of Martin Burnham. Power demonstrative in the texts through a series of techniques that reflect the victims and users of power.…

    • 1186 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Stages of Grief Introduction The focus of this paper is to analyze Wolterstorff’s reproach in Lament for a Son; which is a true life story of a personal reflection of a father’s grief over his twenty-five year old son during a mountain climbing accident. His son’s life was suddenly cut off at a very tender age. It will also reveal Wolterstorff’s worldview concerning grief, the paradox of death, it’s indignation and fear, his spirituality and how he systematically outlived Kubler-Ross’s philosophy on death.…

    • 1145 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and where the other begins?” The meaning of these famous words ring throughout history, and in his poem, “The Masque of the Red Death”. In !842, Poe wrote the master piece which is painted with truth of death, and pain. The story helps create the theme of how man-kind is wicked and evil by how his use of rhetorical devices throughout the tale.…

    • 376 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I am writing this letter to you because of your poem Holy Sonnet 10. Your poem has made me rethink my opinions, and gain a completely new perspective on Death. When I first read your poem, I was confused by it’s meaning and began to do my own research on it. Later I discovered it’s true meaning, which shocked me, and thus I am writing a letter to you because of how it has changed me and what my reaction to it was. As you wrote in your poem, “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so……

    • 559 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To the end, his actions were in vain and purposeless. This myth mirrors how existentialists view life. First, existentialists deny the teleological metaphysics of the idea of life provided by religion, culture, and worldviews. All these ideas serve only to satisfy our need for a meaning/purpose to live. Without these stories, the world and life itself would be considered meaningless.…

    • 1245 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Literature has proved to have very skewed opinions of death and the journey after. In some cases, writers portray a journey that is filled with coldness, regret, and sadness and in others, writers create a sense of warmth, reflection, and gratitude. Emily Dickinson chooses the later when she wrote the story that would later be titled “Because I could not stop for Death”, a story that depicts the journey that Death takes the speaker on towards the afterlife and immortality. From the very first line of the poem, readers understand that the poem is about death. The speaker notes how though she could not stop for Death, “He kindly stopped for me” (2).…

    • 803 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Everyone considers Death to be ruthless and cruel, judging on what he does, but some people have different perspectives on him. Death is kind towards humans demonstrated through the way he doesn't like his job, the way he cares for souls, and the way he cares for Liesel. Death is kind towards humans demonstrated through the way he cares for souls. Close to the end in the book Death explains, “Please believe me when i…

    • 1044 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    A book written about a historical tragedy with a narrator who is stereotyped as a counteractive figure is very abnormal. The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is a historical fiction novel with Death as the narrator. The general idea that Death as a character would not have any guilt or shame towards the deaths of people is inaccurate in this story. In this particular narration, Zusak gives Death the personality of a regular human. Survivor's guilt is the feeling of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.…

    • 1125 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sometimes an individual’s desires cause them to face internal suffering. The poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by sixteenth-century English poet George Gascoigne explores this idea through illustrating the reasoning of why a man cannot look into the eyes of the women he once loved anymore. Gascoigne portrays the man in the poem as being hopeless and unable to unhook himself from the passion he has for the women which mesmerized him. Gascoigne depicts his hopelessness, and rather bleak almost cautious outlook on love after coming out of a bad relationship through the use of diction.…

    • 808 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Emma Hall Mr. de Guzman American Studies– Period 6 17 November 2017 Dickinson Doesn’t Fear the Reaper What is death? The number of times this question has been Google searched worldwide has reached its highest point since 2004 in recent months (“Interest”). While this seems grim, it is a question about which many people wonder throughout their lives. It may be that it is impossible to know the answer to this question for sure, but there are people who develop their own ideas and share them.…

    • 1511 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Markus Zusak's’ “The Book Thief”, he makes Death the narrator. Yes, death takes your loved ones away from you, but Death is not all bad, he has compassion too. “The Book Thief” takes place in Nazi, Germany, while a young girls brother dies, and her parents go missing, and is forced to live in a foster home. Death displays his compassion by showing how attentive he is to Liesel, how his job impacts him, and his obsession with colors. Death assembled Liesel’s fearless encounters, to share with others.…

    • 779 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Weakness of Death “On Death, Without Exaggeration” by Wislawa Szymborska is an observation of Death by a third party. The speaker is discussing how little power Death has in a life. Many people feel that death is omnipotent and they have no power over this. The speaker is using evidence seen over many years to show the reader that Death is not an all powerful entity. Death is the same awkward truth in life just like it was when the world first began.…

    • 1049 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I was born to a Hindu family – and therefore, I call myself a Hindu, based on the cultural exposures that I have had through my family and my religious community. And yet Hinduism for me is like a foundation, one on which I have built my own perceptions of God and religion, based on my own life experiences. My particular views may therefore seem unique at best, blasphemous at worst – but they will have a great impact on how I act as a patient, and as a physician. Like many Hindus, I believe in reincarnation. Traditionally, reincarnation means that after death, souls are reborn many times to repay their debts, to right their wrongs, and to rid themselves of their past karmas, or deeds, until they are ready to become one with God.…

    • 1005 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He just kept going until he finally had that one odd piece. After having twelve daughters he seemed very much satisfied apparently but within his unconscious he knew that he had to feed them, earn for them and arrange their dowries. All his superhuman efforts in his work reflect that he knew the reality but was still in a state of denial.…

    • 771 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics